Talk:Main Page

Protected

Don't you think that our Main Page should be protected so that no common rapscallion will be able to mock our wiki by destroying the Main Page? Most large wikis have done this, so it should be advised we take this action so that only news and important additions should be checked and made by the wiki's officials. --The Pikmin God 15:46, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Featured Article

When will we start the featured article? I think Revan was planning to publish this supposedly...stolen...idea, and put it on the Main Page. We should also improve the quality of the Main Page by andding colored boxes and including a guide to reading and finding the information. This page is still recomended by me to be protected. --The Pikmin God 20:41, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Im going to do the featured article every week. it will change every friday until the voting page starts to work effeiciently--Goolix^burp!!! 19:03, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Unprotected

For whatever reason this page should be unprotected, go right ahead. I just protected it to make sure that our Title Page wouldn't be subject to simple vandalism: destroying Main Pages. --The Pikmin God 21:02, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Improvement Drive

What is the Improvement Drive section supposed to have on it?--The Pikmin God 20:14, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

The iprovement drive needs any article that lacks any vital information.I'm not sure if you have to nominate an article and then people vote if they want it,Or that an admin or someone just puts it there.--Goolix^burp!!! 23:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC) we should have a page where we take votes on things and we should start nominating articles for the improvement drive and the featured articles--Goolix^burp!!! 23:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Boxes

We should box everything in the main page like in wikipedia.Wookiepedia did this we should too,I dont know how though.--Goolix^burp!!! 23:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

No no no your suposed to put a specific article like the Hairy bulborb,mitite,captain olimar,etc.if you still dont get it go to wookiepedia and look under the improvement drive.--Goolix^burp!!! 23:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

i think louie should be put there under the iprovement drive he needs to be cleaned up.--Goolix^burp!!! 23:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I cleaned his page up. Roboashura 02:04, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

nice--Goolix^burp!!! 23:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

(Done) --The Pikmin God 23:53, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Main page look

You guys should have links to various articles. Maybe have boxes for different things (featured article, articles, and another box for... I dunno categories?). Maybe put the info about the wiki in the about page.--Richard 01:11, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

i think we should put the main page as the improvement drive it needs boxes and stuff and we need a group of people that are willing to update the page every month (or week). and we should have a wikipedian of the month kinda thing you know.--Goolix^burp!!! 23:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

why dont we have someone study wikipedia's main page--Goolix^burp!!! 23:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

well how does it look with my new edit?--Goolix^burp!!! 00:04, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

I would just like to point out that the main page wouldnt even be the way it is now without the help of Discordance all i did was copy and paste pretty much and little detail work but he did the the format of it. Here's a link to the main page draft that HE did.Main Page/draft--Goolix^burp!!! 03:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

wow this place looks DIFFERENT i remember this place when the layout sucked!--pikpik 1^{i wont bite!} 22:46, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

"You" or "player"?

Hey guys, I was wondering, should we use "you" or "player" in the articles? Player sounds more uh intelligent I guess, and I'd prefer "player" substituted with "you". What do you guys think?--Richard 01:38, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

• Please put universion things on the main Page. But I also think that we should use Olimar isntead of 'you' or 'player'. Unlike Knights of the Old Republic, you have a name, and its 'Olimar'.

[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wookieepedia:Community_Portal "This is what a community portal is for. Have on of the synsop do it. --Revan 03:01, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Awards

only a suggestion but shouldnt we make awards and such all the other wikis do this and the admins dont have to make them you dont have to be an admin--Goolix^burp!!! 23:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Voting

we should all start a nominations page for the improvement drive, the featured article, and the pikipedian of the month. Where we nominate articles and vote--Goolix^burp!!! 23:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

we need voting pages the wiki wont run effectively--Goolix^burp!!! 23:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

voting needs to start NOW!!!--Goolix^burp!!! 23:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Treasures

Looking over the treasures list, im finding some glaring differences after the batteries for instance Drone Supplies on my PAL version looks like a packet of Haribo sweets. Can someone confirm for me its a can of deviled ham on the NTSC version? There may also be two different items in the Dream series. This is possibly down to different licensing/recognisable products in different regions. Discordance 01:49, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, i've mostly sorted this out now at Treasure Hoard, theres a few difficulties with identical names being used for different items and identical items using different names and different locations but ill sort those eventually. Discordance 03:09, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Naming of Pikmin (game) and Pikmin (species)

Although Pikmin 1 is not the official title of the game, I believe for the sake of disambiguation between categories and articles its an acceptable alternative name and should be used as the article title, (although the intro would state the official title as Pikmin). Currently linking to Pikmin (game) is confusing for new users and laborious compared to using Pikmin 1. Category naming also presents a problem of consistency, currently we have a category named Category:Pikmin 1 Ship Parts, from that title its obvious its about ship parts in the first game, however if we used the official title: Pikmin Ship Parts, are we now talking about parts of a spaceship belonging to the Pikmin? Using the current disambiguated name "Pikmin (game) Ship Parts" is very ugly for a title

I would also like to move the Pikmin (species) article to Pikmin as they are essentially what this is all about! the current disambiguation article located there is small and can easily become a small disambiguation at the top of the Pikmin (species) article like many articles on wikipedia use. So in summary I'd like to see.

• Pikmin (game) > Pikmin 1
• Pikmin (species) > Pikmin with disambiguation at start of article

I think this will make the titles less cumbersome and wiki-linking easier. Discordance 03:18, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Anonymous users

Other wikis I've worked on require users to register an account such as [1]. I do not believe that anonymous editing in general is helpful to the overall upkeep of the wiki. The obvious issue of vandalism aside it makes helping new editors much more difficult when theyre switching IPs, and while it can be frustrating for registered users to have to remember to log in all the time encouraging them to do so is a good thing.

The main reason I'm asking if we can and if people are willing to force registration at the moment, is we have a few active anonymous users all acting in good faith, at least one of which is proficient at editing articles. Most of them however are making mistakes like forgetting spaces after punctuation or more problematically wiki-linking and then creating (and often recreating) unnecessary articles and inserting unverified information. I don't mind cleaning up after them but it would make things easier if their talk page wasn't constantly switching between IPs and I could leave them some advice and links to help articles on their talk page.

On a side note are there many active admins at the moment to help with deletions and cleanup? Or any sysops who could force registration? Discordance 04:01, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Now that i'v heard about this I wan't to say that I'm a anonymous user but at least i'm a good one I'm here to say that I believe we should do a sub block thing like the mariowiki because I'm doing my rounds surfing through all 496 main pages and i'v seen that a few of them are geting vandilized I think you should do something. Yoshi January 10 9:10 (UTC)

Whats a sub block Yoshi? Is that where you block anonymous editors from editing an individual page? Discordance 14:46, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Images

For anyone wondering where most of the images have come from it seems to be here [2]. Source details and all those boring image details need to be filled out eventually. Discordance 06:35, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Random Image

Can a sysop download the random image extension please so we can have a random image on the main page. Its available here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RandomImage Discordance 14:03, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RandomInclude would be nice to for the did you know section. Discordance 14:43, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind, using an already installed extension. Discordance 14:31, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey you said the images are random right well something must be wrong because I saw the same image twice in the past 5 minutes.Yoshi March 24 8:27

New wiki image

The old wiki image wasn't the right size, so I had a go at making a new one. I'm unsure of the licensing on the old image, my new image can't technically be used and someone needs to redraw it at some point. I'll just leave my new version here on the talk page for now if people like it we can use it temporarily but really someone needs to create some original artwork.

Discordance 13:35, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Hmm maybe not, other wikia wikis seem to be using copyrighted images, so im going to go ahead and change the logo, some orginal artwork would be preferable though if theres any artists out there. Discordance 13:46, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

how did you change the logo?--Goolix^burp!!! 01:55, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Its just a normal image named Wiki.png . Discordance 11:21, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Pikmin scenes

i think we should get some actuall screenshots of stuff in pikmin, not just the Clay promos of the 2nd pikmin.--Revan 06:21, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Regional Spelling Variations

I wanted to know what the view on spelling is. Is it okay to spell, for example, 'colour' with a 'u', or should I try to use American spellings, since that is what seems to be the case here so far.--Greenpickle 16:10, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't really think it matters whether or not you use American spellings or not, but you should at least try to use the American spellings to keep the articles consistent. Of course if you don't, sooner or later someone else will probably change the spelling of any non-American spellings to the American spelling, so like I said, it doesn't really matter. Bith 10:27, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

The same?

This wiki says that some of the areas from Pikmin and Pikmin 2 are the same with minor adjustments. This is completely ridiculous. They may be similar, but they are definately not the same places. Also this wiki doesnt have any templates, i think ill work on that. --Samasaurusrex3 03:45, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

I believe what they are trying to say is that the areas are the same as the areas Captian Olimar crashed into in the first game, but seasons have changed in Pikmin 2 to give these levels a completly different look. (I say this because in the last level of Pikmin 2, you can see at one point a clearing that has crop circles on the ground almost identical to the ones that the Pikmin's onions landed on in the previous game.)To say it in a less complicated way, they programmed completly new levels, but they were meant to represent areas where Olimar had already landed. --me_just_in

Main page spoilers

I've noticed that one of the pages on the Featured Article rotation ('Louie') contains what is probably the biggest spoiler in the series - and for that to be there as soon as someone visits the Wiki isn't good.

Page monitoring

@ Me Just In: I don't fully understand what you mean with monitoring, and I don't know much about the way users are built up, but if you are talking about sysops and such: I haven't seen any. There are about 5 or more pages to be deleted, and the "green pikmin" page has been in there for, I think, about 6-5 Months. It really shoudn't be too hard for a sysop to delete those. Ive also read that Dark Lord Revan has left this wiki. I don't know if that's true. Anyway, all I know for sure is that I haven't seen any user with, well, "deletion rights" or whatever do any thing around here.